Academic Ancestry

a person in the record

David John Wales

Professor of Chemical Physics in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridgeborn 1963

Supervised 2 doctoral students at University of Cambridge between 2017 and 2018; Wikidata names Anthony J. Stone as doctoral advisor and names R. Stephen Berry as teacher. Linked to Wikidata, ORCID, and 6 other registers.

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David John Wales, pictured

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Students2

Advisors on Wikidata1

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records.

Teachers and mentors1

Wikidata's "student of" and "student" statements: a line of training beside the lineage, never a thesis supervision and never counted with one.

  • a teacher or mentor, stated by Wikidata: not a thesis supervision

    R. Stephen Berry

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 2 people: 2 cited by thesis records.

Theses

Education and career3

From Wikidata, shown separately from the thesis records. Each place opens its Wikidata item.